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Scott Dorsey
 
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Default Jujube Fragrant Brick - anyone heard of it?

samarkand > wrote:
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>No, that's not the one. Am I correct to say that Plum is the fruit and
>Prune the dried or preserved version of plums? If that is so, then as I
>have mentioned, it is the fragrance of black prune (It is called Wu Mei, I
>think I wrote it wrongly in the previous post) that's in the tea, not the
>plum essence.


Yes, however the Chinese plum (muoi?) is actually a kind of apricot and
not really what Western folks call "plum." I like it a lot but it is
a somewhat different flavour than what folks in the west would consider
a plum flavour.
--scott

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